"chasseur-style pants. The first organized unit to leave the state for the front lines was the 7th New York State Militia, which departed by train for Washington, D.C. on April 19, 1861. The 11th New York Infantry, a two-years' regiment of new recruits, departed ten days later. Among the earliest casualties of the Civil War was Malta, New York, native Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, who was killed in May 1861 during an armed encounter in Alexandria, Virginia. New York had long played an important role in the U.S. military, with the United States Military Academy in West Point providing a"
"New York Military Academy New York Military Academy (NYMA) is a college prep, coed boarding school in the rural town of Cornwall, north of New York City, and one of the oldest military schools in the United States. Originally a boys' school, it started admitting girls in 1975. The school was attended by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who graduated in 1964. On March 3, 2015, NYMA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, facing serious financial difficulties from low enrollment. Instead of opening for the fall semester in September 2015, NYMA closed and was sold at auction"
"taken place in 2005. NYMA cited adverse publicity from the 2005 incident as one of the reasons the school nearly closed in 2010. New York Military Academy New York Military Academy (NYMA) is a college prep, coed boarding school in the rural town of Cornwall, north of New York City, and one of the oldest military schools in the United States. Originally a boys' school, it started admitting girls in 1975. The school was attended by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who graduated in 1964. On March 3, 2015, NYMA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, facing"
"United States Military Academy grounds and facilities The United States Military Academy (West Point) and grounds were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960 due to the Revolutionary War history and the age and historic significance of the Academy itself. The majority of the buildings in the central cadet area are historic. West Point is located approximately north of New York City on the western bank of the Hudson River. The Academy's geographic location and geologic formations have directly shaped its history. There wouldn't even be a military garrison at ""West Point"" were it not for the narrow ""s-curve"" in"
"History of the United States Military Academy The history of the United States Military Academy can be traced to fortifications constructed on the West Point of the Hudson River during the American Revolutionary War in 1778. Following the war, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation establishing the United States Military Academy (USMA) on the site in 1802. In 1817 the Academy was transformed by the appointment of Sylvanus Thayer who drastically reformed the curriculum. The harsh winter of 1777–1778 froze the Hudson River, allowing elements of the Connecticut militia under the command of General Samuel Holden Parsons to march westward across"
"Hinsdale of the 3rd North Carolina. Yonkers Military Institute The Yonkers Military Institute was a United States military academy located in Yonkers, New York. From an albumen photograph measuring 15.25"" x 12.75"" and dating to circa 1862 the class and presumably its instructors and leaders are pictured with the Institute behind. A legend along the bottom identifies the scene as N. W. Starr's Commercial and Collegiate Institute, Yonkers New York. Photographed by Stacy, 691 Broadway. According to a period publications the school was established in 1854 and moved to Port Chester in 1874. Figures associated with the Institute were Frederick"
"United States Military Academy Preparatory School The United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS), sometimes referred to as West Point Prep, is a preparatory school for the United States Military Academy (USMA). Located in West Point, New York, its official mission is ""to provide academic, military and physical instruction in a moral-ethical military environment to prepare and motivate candidates for success at the United States Military Academy."" In 1916, the rules for admission to the U.S. Service Academies changed to include a formal admission process to ensure the appointees' success and excellence. Between the two World Wars, the U.S. was"
"Yonkers Military Institute The Yonkers Military Institute was a United States military academy located in Yonkers, New York. From an albumen photograph measuring 15.25"" x 12.75"" and dating to circa 1862 the class and presumably its instructors and leaders are pictured with the Institute behind. A legend along the bottom identifies the scene as N. W. Starr's Commercial and Collegiate Institute, Yonkers New York. Photographed by Stacy, 691 Broadway. According to a period publications the school was established in 1854 and moved to Port Chester in 1874. Figures associated with the Institute were Frederick Norton Freeman and Col. John W."
"New York Academy of Art The New York Academy of Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the neighborhood of Tribeca in Manhattan borough of New York City. The Academy is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques. The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1980 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, Stuart Pivar, Dennis Smith and Russell Wilkinson. The founders were passionate about fostering the resurgence of representational"
"Eastern Military Academy Eastern Military Academy (EMA) was a high school military academy founded in 1944 in Connecticut, United States by Roland R. Robinson, a former mathematics teacher at Peekskill Military Academy (now also defunct), and his brother-in-law, Carleton Witham. The relationship with the local town was poor from the start, and in 1948 the school moved to Cold Spring Hills on Long Island, New York, until the school closed in 1979. At its new location, the school was based in one of the largest mansions ever constructed in the United States, Oheka Castle, built by Otto Kahn, a multimillionaire."
"named St. Austin's Place is a reminder of the school. St. Austin's Military School St. Austin's Military School is a defunct American military academy formerly located in the West Brighton section of Staten Island, New York. The school was founded in 1883 by the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer with the name St. Austin's Episcopal School for Boys. The name of the school was soon changed to St. Austin's Military School. In 1898, it moved to Connecticut. While on Staten Island the school was housed in the former Garner Mansion on St. Austin's Place. The building still exists as part of"
"United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1971. West Point hoped to use archaeological data as a basis for restoring Revolutionary War period fortifications in honor of the approaching United States Bicentennial celebration. Jelks organized the project as a field school, allowing students to take part in the contracted work while earning course credit. With the rise of cultural resource management (CRM) work, it became clear that organizations looking to contract with archaeologists had no manner of recognizing who was qualified to do professional work. Jelks and colleague Bob McGimsey were approached by the chief archaeologist of"
"pavers, which used to lead from the steamboat dock to the academy and of which only one section remains as part of a parking lot, is thought by city historian John Curran, among others, to be the inspiration for the Yellow Brick Road in alumnus L. Frank Baum's Oz books including the Wizard of Oz. Famous alumni include actor Guy Williams, banker Sandy Weill, writer L. Frank Baum, politician Chauncey Depew, and Olympic swimmers Carl Robie and Stephen Rerych. A former Peekskill commandant, Charles Jefferson Wright, founded New York Military Academy in 1889, and a former faculty member, Roland R."
"Peekskill Military Academy Peekskill Military Academy was a military academy for young men and women, founded in 1833 as Peekskill Academy, located in Peekskill, New York, United States. The academy was built by a hanging tree where a British spy was executed in 1777; his bones were discovered and relocated during construction of a dormitory in the 1860s. In 1841 the academy decided to only admit boys. By 1857 it was known as Peekskill Military Academy. The school song was titled ""The Big House on the Hill"". The school motto was ""Stand Firm As An Oak. Quit You Like Men."""
"Thayer Hotel The Thayer Hotel is a 151-room ""Historic Hotel of America"" property located 50 miles north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River at 674 Thayer Road in West Point, New York on the campus of the United States Military Academy. It is named after Sylvanus Thayer, West Point class of 1808, the ""father of the Military Academy."" It replaced the West Point Hotel. The Thayer Hotel has three main markets: tourists visiting West Point, weddings, and corporate conferences. The Thayer Hotel came under new management in October 2009. The 151-room hotel has been completely"
"United States Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy (also known as USMMA or Kings Point), one of the five United States service academies, is located in Kings Point, New York. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, and the transportation industry. Midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) are trained in marine engineering, navigation, ship's administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship. Between 1874 and 1936, diverse federal legislation supported maritime training through"
"has created a museum inside of a hotel. Some notable graduates of West Point who have a room dedicated to them include: General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead, the first female United States Military Academy graduate general officer. Thayer Hotel The Thayer Hotel is a 151-room ""Historic Hotel of America"" property located 50 miles north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River at 674 Thayer Road in West Point, New York on the campus of the United States Military Academy. It is named after Sylvanus Thayer,"
"usage, the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy are both service academies. The first military academies were established in the 18th century to provide future officers for technically specialized corps, such as engineers and artillery, with scientific training. The Royal Danish Naval Academy was set up in 1701, making it the oldest military academy in existence. The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich was set up in 1720 as the earliest military academy in Britain. Its original purpose was to train cadets entering the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. In France, the École Royale du Génie at Mézières"
"St. Austin's Military School St. Austin's Military School is a defunct American military academy formerly located in the West Brighton section of Staten Island, New York. The school was founded in 1883 by the Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer with the name St. Austin's Episcopal School for Boys. The name of the school was soon changed to St. Austin's Military School. In 1898, it moved to Connecticut. While on Staten Island the school was housed in the former Garner Mansion on St. Austin's Place. The building still exists as part of the campus of Richmond University Medical Center. A nearby street"
"U.S. Military Academy, becoming the 17th graduate of the academy in 1806. He was well known among the army officer corps as an engineer and artillery officer. He built Fort Meigs in Ohio as well as other fortifications. Fort Wood, an early 19th-century star-shaped fortification on Bedloe's Island (named after Isaac Bedloo), now called Liberty Island, was named in his honor, as is Wood County, Ohio. At the conclusion of the War of 1812, Major General Jacob Brown contacted Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, Superintendent of the Military Academy, and ordered the monument's construction at West Point at his own expense. The"
"friends. In 2012, Sam Tan Wei Shen, a Singaporean, was the first-ever foreigner to graduate first in his class in the history of the Academy. United States Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former"
"The Plain (West Point) The Plain is the parade field at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The flat terrain of the Plain is in contrast to the varied and hilly terrain of the remainder of the campus. The Plain rises approximately above the Hudson River and has been the site of the longest continually occupied U.S. Army garrison in America since 1778. In its early years, the entire academy was located on the Plain and it was used for varying activities ranging from drill and mounted cavalry maneuvers to an encampment site for summer training"
"United States Military Academy at West Point. In the center of Eatontown is the Monmouth Mall, located at the intersection of Route 35 and Route 36, featuring a variety of stores, restaurants, and a 15-screen cineplex, with a gross leasable area of . Celebrity chef Bobby Flay owns a restaurant in Eatontown. In 1886, a mob broke into the jail and removed a black man, Samuel “Mingo Jack” Johnson, who was being held for the alleged rape of a white woman. The mob brutally beat and then hanged Johnson, the father of five. Later events show that it was extremely"
"the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Commanding and staff officers underwent a three-year program while engineers were taught for 4 years. In 1998 the Academy merged with the Frunze Academy to become the ""Combined Arms Academy"". Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy () in Saint Petersburg dates back to 1698. In 1849 it was named ""Mikhailovskaya"" after Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich of Russia. In 1925 it merged into the Red Army Military Technical Academy, was restored in 1953 as Kalinin Artillery Military Academy () as a"
"United States Naval Academy The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, east of Washington, D.C. and southeast of"
"moved to West Point July 18, 2011, when the 2005 Base Realignment and ClosureAct closed Fort Monmouth. United States Military Academy Preparatory School The United States Military Academy Preparatory School (USMAPS), sometimes referred to as West Point Prep, is a preparatory school for the United States Military Academy (USMA). Located in West Point, New York, its official mission is ""to provide academic, military and physical instruction in a moral-ethical military environment to prepare and motivate candidates for success at the United States Military Academy."" In 1916, the rules for admission to the U.S. Service Academies changed to include a formal"
"New York City Police Academy The New York City Police Academy is the police academy of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Within the organization of the New York City Police Department, the Chief of Training oversees the Training Bureau, which includes the Police Academy as well as other units. The old Police Academy opened in 1964 and was located at 235 East 20th Street in Manhattan, in the Gramercy Park area. Within 25 years, however, the facility was regarded as antiquated and obsolete, and no longer had capacity for larger classes of police trainees. Jeremy Travis (then the"
"Robinson, founded Eastern Military Academy (1944–1979). Peekskill Military Academy Peekskill Military Academy was a military academy for young men and women, founded in 1833 as Peekskill Academy, located in Peekskill, New York, United States. The academy was built by a hanging tree where a British spy was executed in 1777; his bones were discovered and relocated during construction of a dormitory in the 1860s. In 1841 the academy decided to only admit boys. By 1857 it was known as Peekskill Military Academy. The school song was titled ""The Big House on the Hill"". The school motto was ""Stand Firm As"
"Academy, operated by the United States Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration, is located at Kings Point, New York. It is one of the nation’s prime sources of licensed merchant marine officers and is renowned for its maritime education and training programs. Vice Admiral Stewart retired from the United States Merchant Marine Academy on September 30, 2008. Vice Admiral Stewart's personal decorations include: ‐ Joseph D. Stewart Joseph D. Stewart, also known affectionately by the midshipmen of the United States Merchant Marine Academy as ""Joey D,"" (born July 9, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps major general, who after"
"New York Film Academy New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theatre producer. It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. In 1994, NYFA moved to the former Tammany Hall building in Union Square. After 23 years of occupancy, the Academy relocated from Tammany Hall to Battery Park in October 2015. As of 2012, the school has 400+ employees and over"
"The New American Academy The New American Academy is a Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York public school, PS 770, which opened in the fall of 2010. The school opened to kindergarten and first grade and will gradually grow with the students each year to include fifth grade. The school was founded by and is led by Shimon Waronker, who has a bachelor's degree from Rabbinical College of America and a master's degree from Touro College. The New American Academy puts sixty children in a single, large classroom. The New American Academy has four teachers with sixty students (for a 15:1"
"extensive data about the state's natural resources and economy. Ideas for a national institution for military education were circulated during the American Revolution. It wasn't until 1802 when Jefferson, following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others, finally convinced Congress to authorize the funding and building of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River in New York. On March 16, 1802, Jefferson signed the Military Peace Establishment Act, directing that a corps of engineers be established and ""stationed at West Point in the state of New York, and shall constitute a Military Academy."""
"New York University, and the University of Rochester are widely regarded as the premier higher education institutions in New York, all of them leading, world-renowned universities and members of the Association of American Universities, the pre-eminent group of research universities in the United States. Two of the nation's five Federal Service Academies are located in New York: the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. New York attracts the most college students from other states, according to statistics that show that among freshmen who leave their home states to attend"